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Prof Denied Funds Over Evolution Evidence
radarsat1 writes "The Montreal Gazette today reported that a professor at Montreal's McGill University was refused a $40,000 grant, allegedly because 'he'd failed to provide the panel with ample evidence that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is correct.' Ironically, the grant was for a study into the detrimental effects of intelligent design on Canadian academics and leaders." From the article: "Jennifer Robinson, McGill's associate vice-principal for communications, said the university has asked the SSHRC to review its decision to reject Alters's request for money to study how the rising popularity in the United States of 'intelligent design' - a controversial creationist theory of life - is eroding acceptance of evolutionary science in Canada."
FSMism is the one true belief! Of course he can't prove evolution is correct, any Pastafarian knows how the world (and midgets) truely came to be.
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> No, what's sad is the plethora of churchgoers who apparently can't be bothered with an explanation more complex than "Humans are humans and dogs are dogs because jebus said so."
Yes, but what's saddest of all is that unlike my ape-descended friends who haven't caught onto the scientific method, the difference between dogs and humans is that dogs learn from their mistakes.
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This is all Bush's fault! Oh wait... this is in Canada. Well it's STILL Bush's fault, dammit!
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I hope you do not consider this a flame. There are holes in the sense there are lots and lots of gaps in the fossil record. Each time a new transitional species is found there a usually at least two more.
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The Easter Bunny is the best proof yet of intelligent design! What other explanation is there for rabbits laying painted eggs on Jesus's birthday? Obviously that proves the existence of God, and supports the story of Adam and Eve.
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I can state without a shadow of a doubt, it's an absolute fact that I have two testicles.
You're only saying that because you know we're not going to ask you to prove it!
"What proof has there EVER been that there is one?"
:p ).. the very fact that anything exists seems proof that things are possible that are well without our limits of comprehension, ie God. The thing that always gets me is that matter/the universe ever existed, and it's just as easy (to me) to believe that God always existed, as that the universe did. Our minds work around the ideas of beginning and ends.. since the universe must have just always been here, then it is infinite.. and in infinite time, if you believe in evolution, say, then you could believe that some species could evolve into being omnipotent, as God is. I read a great Aasimov short story where computers became so advanced that they basically were omnipotent, and manages to reverse entropy, then last line of the story was 'let there be light' I think. There are many ways in which you could come to believing in God, evolution itself is probably a good reason to believe that some all powerful being evolved somewhere else in the universe. But most people just tend to use it to try and bash Christians (whom they dont seem to like very much for some reason, possibly because we tell them they're sinners), or anyone who believes that we're not the most intelligent beings around.
maybe there isn't 'proof', but there is plenty of indication in the order in the world today (a la Intelligent Design), in morality, love and so on (as one person pointed out above as being things that people tend to use God to explain, as I would myself
It does seem that people use evolution to try to disprove God, which would be a 'fanatical' viewpoint, since the two are not really related. In fact I could even be made to reconcile Genesis 1 with evolution, if there was 'extensive proof', with no valid counter-arguments, but I still have no problem believing that Genesis 1 is literal
which is totally what she said
Oooh! A tantalizing question! Does God have a God?
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